Afroman Settles Lawsuit Over Punching Woman During Performance

Biloxi, MS – Afroman, best known for his 2001 single “Because I Got High,” has reached a settlement over a 2015 incident in which he punched a woman who jumped on stage while he was performing. Mississippi’s WLOX News first reported news of Afroman and the victim intending to settle the lawsuit, and TMZ’s sources confirmed the case won’t be going to trial.

Haley Byrd, the victim, was suing Afroman and Biloxi venue Kress Live after the one-hit wonder smacked her in the face during a performance in 2015. Afroman previously pled guilty to assault and avoided jail time following the attack, but Byrd filed a civil suit against him and the venue.

Byrd, who already settled the case with Kress Live, was suing for negligence and defamation. The suit claimed Afroman was guilty of libel and slander in the 2016 song “Get Off The Stage,” which seemingly references the incident. Afroman raps lines such as, “Then turn around, try to sue for dough/ Attention-wanting, gold-digging hoe” and “Please don’t jump on the stage with ‘Fro/ I reach back like a pimp and slap the hoe.”

Terms of the settlement haven’t been made public at this time. Byrd’s attorney Tim Holleman said they will be disclosed once all parties sign the agreement.

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E-40 Announces "The Gift Of Gab" Album

E-40 is living up to his Charlie Hustle nickname. One month after releasing the Connected Respected album with his cousin B-Legit, the Bay Area Hip Hop legend has announced a new solo album titled The Gift Of Gab.

40 Water’s next LP is scheduled to drop on June 29. The project will be the 25th solo album of E-40’s career. His last solo effort was The D-Boy Diary, which was released as a two-parter in 2016.

No tracklist for the upcoming album has been revealed at this time. E-40 also hasn’t shared a lead single for the LP.

Check out E-40’s The Gift Of Gab cover art below.

E-40 New album “ THE GIFT OF GAB “ June 29th 2018 ?????

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Hip Hop Week In Review: Tekashi 6ix9ine, J. Cole & T.I.

HipHopDX – This week in Hip Hop, Tekashi 6ix9ine found himself in some more drama with former music collaborator Trippie Redd when he accused Trippie of having sexual relations with Bhad Bhabie. J. Cole had an interview with Angie Martinez this week and crushed the widely held assumption that his KOD track “1985 (Intro To ‘The Fall Off’)” was directed toward Lil Pump. Lastly, T.I. was arrested outside his gated community for public drunkenness, disorderly conduct, and simple assault.

6ix9ine vs. Trippie Redd vs. Bhad Bhabie

#tekashi69 claims #trippieredd had sex with 15 year old #daniellebregoli

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Trippie Redd originally disassociated himself from Tekashi 6ix9ine over sexual misconduct charges stemming from the Brooklyn rap star’s guilty plea of the use of a child in a sexual performance and the “GOTTI” rapper decided to hit back at his former collaborator with a similar accusation.

Earlier in the week, 6ix9ine went on to Instagram and in front of his 5 million followers accused Trippie of having sex with Danielle “Bhad Bhabie” Bregoli (also known as the Cash Me Outside girl). Trippie quickly responded with an IG post of his own and said he knew it was XXXTENTACION who gave him that information and that it is absolutely false.

To further clarify, Bregoli hopped on IG Live with 6ix9ine to let the world know the assertion she had sex with Trippie Redd is fake news. She revealed she shared a kiss with Trippie when he was 17 years old, making them both minors.

That should be the least of Tekashi’s worries, though. He’s been called out for not paying his jeweler, he reportedly has a warrant out for him after a fan accused him of choking him, and there’s a women’s advocacy group pushing for Spotify to remove his music from playlists.

Read more about the 6ix9ine vs. Trippie Redd vs. Bhad Bhabie drama here.

J. Cole Lil Pump Have No Beef

Lil Pump took J. Cole’s KOD track “1985 (Intro To ‘The Fall Off’)” to heart, responding to the track after many fans pinpointed him as the target. However, during a recent interview with Angie Martinez, Cole went on record saying it wasn’t about Pump but about this generation of young rappers capitalizing off the attention trolling gets you.

When Cole’s fans began chanting “Fuck Lil Pump” at JMBYLA 2018 in Texas earlier this month, the Dreamville boss shut the crowd’s shouts down. Although Pump never offered Cole the same consideration when his fans shouted out “Fuck J. Cole” during his Rolling Loud set in Miami, he recently showed love to him when TMZ caught him outside LAX.

Up-and-coming rapper YBN Cordae also had some words for Cole regardless in the form of a reworked version of “1985,” titled “Old Niggas.”

Either way, J. Cole’s KOD was certified gold with no (real) features last week.

Read more about J. Cole and Lil Pump here.

T.I. Arrested Outside His Mansion

After a night out, T.I. came home to his gated community after hours and was denied entrance because he didn’t have his key. Despite his wife Tiny calling the security booth to ask for the security guard to let him in, the police were called and he was eventually taken into custody. Authorities charged Tip with public drunkenness and disorderly conduct — which he called “small potatoes.”

Read more about T.I.’s arrest here.

DX Reviews

Kevin Gates — Chained To The City

Too Short — The Sex Tape Playlist 

BlocBoy JB — Simi

Royce Da 5’9 — Book of Ryan 

Chris Orrick — Portraits

Junglepussy — Jp3

Preme — Light Of Day

DXclusives: Lil B MC Paul Barman

Lil B Clarifies Only The BasedGod Can Curse People

In an exclusive interview with DX, Lil B discusses all those curses he’s put on various profession sports athletes such as Kevin Durant and more famously, James Harden, who he accused of not acknowledging him as the creator of the “cooking dance” he would performed on the court.

As of now, no one has any curses.

“Right now, everybody’s good,” he says. “But Lil B can’t curse. The BasedGod curses. I just let folks know. Don’t put the blame on Lil B. No, no, no.”

Read the full interview with Lil B here.

#DXCLUSIVE: MC Paul Barman Premieres New Album “(((echo chamber)))”

MC Paul Barman released his debut studio album Paullelujah! back in 2002 and a lot in the music industry has changed since then. Speaking with DX, he addresses the aggressive changes the industry has experienced since his first album.

“That’s a tough one as it presupposes I know much about the music biz or that it, in fact, currently exists at all,” he says. “Streaming and internet has been a massive land grab. My real understanding is that when Virgin Records told the labels, “Hey $16 is too much, we need to reduce the price,’ the labels got greedy and raised it to $20. That was the tipping point. Used CDs were too cheap, of exactly the same quality, and then when Napster and CD burners came out, there was no goodwill and no more record stores. Also, the Twin Towers fell (bad), the internet happened (bad probably) and I had kids (mostly good).”

Read MC Paul Barman’s full interview here.

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Top Dawg Entertainment Teases Unreleased Tracks

Top Dawg Entertainment, the record label that blessed Hip Hop with the likes of Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q, Ab-Soul and SZA — just to name a few — has suggested they’ll be dropping some previously unreleased tracks soon.

Though they didn’t specify exactly when the unheard songs would arrive, they made an announcement of the upcoming music on their Twitter page.

TDE said fans who subscribe to their Spotify playlist will get “instant notifications” about their upcoming releases.

The latest release on TDE’s Spotify page is Jay Rock’s “Win,” with Kendrick Lamar providing a feature.

In a follow-up tweet, the label also said they’d be making some tracks available on Apple Music as well.

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Anderson .Paak Thinks Meek Mill Should’ve Met With Donald Trump

New York, NY – Anderson .Paak believes Meek Mill should’ve followed through with his plan to attend the prison reform summit at the White House earlier this week.

Meek pulled out of the commitment after JAY-Z reportedly convinced him that aligning himself with Donald Trump in any way was a bad look.

But .Paak, whose own mother was incarcerated for over seven years, thinks Meek has the power to make a difference.

I think if Meek Mill had his mind set to go and do what he had to do, I think maybe he should have did that, the “Bubblin’” rapper told TMZ. “My mom was in prison for seven and a half years and I know that’s a big issue, that’s a major issue  — prison reform — that shit need to be rectified A.S.A.P.

“It’s so much cheap labor that goes into it. It really does need to be magnified and looked at. And Meek is the man for that.”

.Paak went on to say he thinks Meek missed an important opportunity.

“If they would have went in and did something, worked together, came out with something that actually helped the situation, that’s what you want,” he said. “Who gives a damn, if that’s what it is. We got how many more years with this dude? It’s like, ‘OK, this is what it is. Let me show you, this is what needs to happen.’ And they come together and make something happen. What? How can you hate on that?”

Meek issued a statement on Friday (May 18) explaining his reason for canceling his scheduled meeting at the White House.

“Unfortunately, the focus turned to the President and myself which concerned me that it might take away from creating a positive result from today’s discussions,” he said. “As a result, I decided not to attend, so that the focus would be solely on fixing our prison system. Most importantly, I remain fully committed to improving our criminal justice system.”

Whether Trump was going to attend the prison reform summit was never confirmed.

Meek was released from prison on April 24 after serving five months for probation violations. While in Chester State Prison, he inadvertently became the new face of criminal justice reform.

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